@nils_gilman This state was howling for blood and the psycho-dynamics haven't changed. Meanwhile, modernity at large can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben). Why? A tackle ends the game.
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So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1.
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A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monning, of Int. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.](/media/1637986833178185729-FrtMVyoaUAAi4sX.jpg)
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1. 2/ Quote Tweet A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monning, of Int. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
@samhaselby @moshik_temkin Moving on then, how do we address an Extinction Tyranny - Zuboff's "great lie that economic logic is the only model that will work" - so totalizing in its full-spectrum claim upon the nature of reality that we barely recognize peak modernism for the sheer deception it represents?
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Copy of tweet: Tara Ann Thieke I think it's increasingly obvious that the disasters of the 21st century share a common root in outsourcing perception of reality to models & theories advanced by a highly-paid new pseudo-priesthood. Accountability is impossible in this framework. It's up to us to look away. 4:55 AM · Mar 6, 2023